Are you an experienced Infrastructure and Network Engineer interested in working for a Great Place To Work (GPTW) Certified organisation?

Sopra Steria are currently recruiting for an exciting role within the Government and Transport sector for an Engineer who has demonstrable experience working in Cloud Infrastructure and Network Engineering. This is a hybrid role where no two days will be the same and offers the opportunity to be involved with the technical design, implementation, and support of cloud infrastructures as well as Network Support and Security Management. We are looking for experience in industry standard Cloud and Network Engineering technologies, the team is also currently on the hunt for more general Linux knowledge so any experience in this area will be a big positive! You will have lots of opportunity for personal and professional development within this role and huge scope for progression within the team and wider sector. This is a senior role so applicants should be confident in their technical abilities and happy to mentor and help train more junior team members.

The Cloud Infrastructure and Network Engineer role is hybrid variable, most of your time will be spent from home so the role can align to any of our offices (London, Hemel Hempstead, Manchester or Edinburgh).

What you'll be doing:

Evaluate hardware and software (within server, network, storage or desktop environments) to ensure that the integration and test of new products (both hardware and software) for incorporation into program infrastructure

Technical design, implementation and support of Cloud Infrastructure

Administration and enhancement of the environment and its supportability, for example: administration of user accounts, control the network access integrity, manage the data, in terms of space allocated to data, access authorizations, SAN, optimization as well as network configurations including LAN, WAN, firewalls, routing and activities to size networks appropriately.

Provide second line support to ensure right support.

What you'll bring:

Experience working with public cloud platforms - AWS/Azure

Experience working on complex infrastructures at an enterprise scale e.g. advanced infrastructure skills covering administration, fault finding/diagnosis and fix, File/Print clusters etc.

Expert Networking skills and experience of working in an enterprise environment and exposure to Palo Alto technologies (PAN), F5, Routing and Load balancing

Experience working in Linux Systems Administration and Infrastructures

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Hybrid variable

Security Clearance Level: SC

Internal Recruiter: Olly Walker

Salary: Up to £65,000

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

We support the UK Government to tackle today's biggest challenges. We combine technical expertise and delivery capability with vision to accelerate change and reinvent the way that Public Services are designed and delivered. We work with energy and integrity to build intelligent, highly secure, joined-up solutions that make a difference to everyday lives. We've been helping Government to make a difference for 50 years, creating common systems and approaches, enabling government to work across multiple agencies and radically transform how Public Services are delivered. Empowering Government to make a difference to everyone, every day.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application